This topic provides information about the enhancements and features introduced in PATROL for Microsoft Windows Servers 4.7.00.
Enhancements
BMC ProactiveNet Central Monitoring Administration support
With version 4.7.00 of PATROL for Microsoft Windows Servers and version 9.5.00 of BMC ProactiveNet Central Monitoring Administration, you can monitor the following monitoring profiles. Monitoring profiles provide you the capability of monitoring various aspects of the Windows components. You can directly apply the monitoring profile to enable default monitoring for the areas (monitor types) available under that profile. You can also manually configure some of the monitor types that are available for manual configuration.
- Active Directory
- Active Directory Remote Monitoring
- Basic Health
- COM+
- Clusters
- Disk Performance
- Domain Services
- Event Log
- Hyper-V
- Job Objects and Processes
- Message Queue
- Network Performance
- Operating System
- Perfmon and WMI Wizard Configuration
- Processes
- Remote Desktop Services Monitoring
- Remote Monitoring
- Services
- System Performance
- Printers (monitoring profile)
Some monitoring profiles contain monitor types that were independently available earlier, without being a part of a monitoring profile. Some of these monitor types are renamed in this version of the product.
The following table provides details about the changes as compared to the earlier release:
| Monitor type (old name) | Monitor type (new name, if any) | Monitoring profile container |
|---|---|---|
| Remote Host Configuration | Windows Remote Monitoring | Remote Monitoring or Operating System |
Process Configuration | Windows Processes | Processes or Services or Operating System |
| Windows Event Log | Windows Event Log | Event Log or Operating System |
| Microsoft Clusters Monitoring | Cluster Configuration | Clusters or Operating System |
| Services Configuration | Windows Services | Services or Operating System |
Executing agent actions
Besides configuring monitor types, you can now execute agent actions available on the BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management Operations Console. Agent actions provide menu commands that are available on BMC PATROL for performing functions such as refreshing parameters of an application class, configuring trace options, viewing reports, and so on. For more information, see Executing agent actions on a monitor.
Support for dynamically monitoring Perfmon instances
You can dynamically monitor all the Perfmon instances available in your environment. You can do this by using the asterisk (*) wildcard character as the value for the following Agent configuration variable:
/Perfmon/NT_PERFMON_WIZARD/object/Instances (object refers to the Permon object)
Thresholds disabled for parameters
With this release, thresholds such as the Border Range, Alarm1, and Alarm2 are disabled for the availability parameters.
The following table lists the parameters along with the application classes to which they belong.
Package change notice
With BMC PATROL for Microsoft Windows Servers 4.7.00 release, packaging of BMC PATROL Agent with this KM has been discontinued.
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